EMPATHY: Putting Yourself In Someone Else's Shoes

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EMPATHY: Putting Yourself In Someone Else's Shoes

Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial or helping behaviors.

The quiz below is intended to test the level of your EMPATHY QUOTIENT. This test was developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge for the purpose of calculating whether you have a male or a female brain.

Empathising is the drive to identify another person's emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion. The empathiser intuitively figures out how people are feeling, and how to treat people with care and sensitivity.